Kasandra
Fewer than 700 women in Poland carry it, and last year not a single newborn girl was given it. Greek at root, a form of Cassandra, read as "the one who stands out".
Kasandra Pronunciation
Kasandra is pronounced kah-SAHND-rah (/kaˈsandra/).
What Kasandra means
Where Kasandra comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Kasandra comes from the Greek Kassandra, a name carried by the Trojan princess of Homer's world. Ancient grammarians read its parts as a form of the verb kekasmai, to shine or excel, joined with andros, of man. That gives the sense recorded here: shining or excelling over man. In Polish the same idea settles into two words, wyróżniająca się, one who stands out.
The Greek figure left the name a long literary afterlife. Cassandra was granted prophecy and then cursed so that no one would believe her, and writers from Aeschylus onward kept returning to her. The Polish form drops the doubled s and the Latin ending, so Kasandra reads cleanly on a page.
A teacher calling the class register meets it without stumbling. It has no standard diminutive fixed to it, so the full form does the work.
Short and clear. The meaning holds: wyróżniająca się.
When Kasandra celebrates name day
Kasandra appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 22 January.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Kasandra
1 in 32720 women in Poland is named Kasandra. 689 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1130 among female names.
Kasandra's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been falling steadily since 2000.
Where Kasandra is most popular
Kasandra is most popular in Warmian-Masurian, 187% above the national average (2 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Lower Silesian (+162%) and West Pomeranian (+144%). It is least common in Masovian, 42% below average.
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Warmian-Masurian2 girls born+187%
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Lower Silesian4 girls born+162%
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West Pomeranian2 girls born+144%
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Pomeranian3 girls born+110%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian2 girls born+88%
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Silesian4 girls born+81%
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Łódź2 girls born+62%
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Masovian2 girls born−42%
Kasandra as a middle name
Kasandra is a first name for 689 women in Poland and a middle name for another 273, a 72/28 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 409th, between Fryderyka (274) and Michaela (268).
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#407 Martina279
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#408 Fryderyka274
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#409 Kasandra273
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#410 Michaela268
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#411 Wilhelmina268